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Wiscoy Creek: Staking the Roots of TU Inspiration
Around age 11, Kyle Glenn was walking the roadside path to go fishing for trout in Wiscoy Creek with his dad, Paul. As they approached a small bridge overpass, the pair noticed an angler at the bridge. After a few moments, Tom Piwowar began to share a familiar tale to most, the kind of “5-pound brown trout from right over there” story that every optimistic angler…
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Faces of Restoration: Gian Dodici
“Taking a dam out and seeing a free-flowing river again,” he reflects. “I’ve got the best job in the world.”
Like many young kids, Gian Dodici spent his early years fully immersed in the underwater universe of Jacque Cousteau and found world travel at his fingertips by turning the pages of National Geographic. While traveling throughout his childhood, Gian spent time turning over creek rocks looking for crayfish to flipping desert stones searching for scorpions.…
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Reconnection Report Card — New York Priority Waters
Trout Unlimited's staff and municipal partners continue to work diligently to complete a wide-spanning list of New York priority culvert surveys and replacements. The reconnection of fragmented and dammed rivers resides at the core of our strategy to improve habitat for New York’s wild trout. With our small but mighty team, we reconnected over 30…
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Vander Werff joins TU staff to lead project work in CT
TU’s Northeast Conservation program has welcomed a key role player to the team. Jon C. Vander Werff is TU’s new Connecticut project manager. Vander Werff will orchestrate the 2025 Norwalk River Cannondale Dam (below) removal project, partnering with regional staff leads Tracy Brown and Jesse Vadala to execute this major project and connect our mission…
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Blue Lines & Brook Trout – Mapping Critical Spawning Habitat in Connecticut’s Priority Waters
Trout Unlimited and Connecticut DEEP band together for wild trout data collection and improved regulations. Here’s how YOU can help today! Brook trout in Connecticut have certainly not had it easy these last few centuries due to logging, agriculture and development, and yet these resilient and resourceful native fish still hold on – even thrive…
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West Kill Brewing & Trout Unlimited present: Brookies for Brookies
Catskill craft beer conservation partnership announced
Photo by Ashley Bohan.Illustration of “Brookie” By Steven Weinberg.www.stevenweinbergstudio.com Catskill craft beer conservation partnership announced West Kill Brewing is proud to support the efforts of Trout Unlimited to conserve and protect eastern brook trout here in its home state of New York, and you can too. September 1st kicks off our “Brookies for Brookies” partnership…
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Trees of Time: Expanding the Legacy of Boquet River Restoration
In the early 1990s, TU volunteer Rich Redmen had the idea to use large Willow stakes to resurrect a deeply eroding stream bank on the Boquet River in Wadhams, N.Y. At the time, it was a common practice to load eroding banks with large rocks, often called rip rap. But rip rap could cost 15…
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